2026 Head Race Distance Training Plan

CHF79.00

A scientifically structured head-race program designed for competitive club and masters rowers racing over 20-45 minutes. Combining aerobic endurance, threshold development, VO₂max training and progressive strength work, the plan builds sustainable race-day speed while managing fatigue and recovery. Designed around real-world time constraints, athletes can expect to train 5-8 hours per week while progressing toward peak performance on race day.

Description

Bill Chambers sculling towards an island on a still lake

Twelve weeks to a head race, built for a masters rower with a job, a family and a finite number of training hours. Longer threshold blocks and continuous race-pace work, because a head race is won in the second half.

What you get
One sheet, twelve weeks
  • Every session for twelve weeks, colour-coded by intensity zone
  • Threshold blocks up to 3 × 10 minutes, and continuous race-pace work scaled to your race length
  • Race week planned in full, including the day before and the morning of
  • Strength sessions built around masters recovery, with a load rule instead of fixed kilograms
  • Rest-day structure: three on, one off — never more than two rest days in a row
  • Heart rate zone calculator so the zones are yours, not a textbook average
Who it is for
And who it is not

For rowers racing 20 to 45 minutes. Week 10 scales the continuous work to your race length, so it suits a short head race and a long one equally. If your next race is a sprint, buy the sprint plan; the intervals are different and it matters.

If you already have a coach writing your programme, you do not need this.

Worth
knowing
Both plans bought separately are CHF 158. Faster Membership is CHF 129 and includes both, plus the full library of protocols and calculators and everything released during your year.
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